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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

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Film DVD Review

Wall-E

by Jennifer Kelly

[9.Jan.09] :. The first half hour of Wall-E is a lyrical, magical achievement in filmmaking, which if it ended there, would make the movie an undisputed classic.

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The end is here: 9-11 attacks and the new millennium revive apocalyptic movies

by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[1.Oct.08] :. Flooded cities. A plague of blindness. Humanity huddled in bunkers. It’s just another night at the movies. The Katrina documentary “Trouble the Water,” the viral-outbreak drama...

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‘Wall-E,’ Pixar’s surprisingly political postmodern masterpiece

by Rod Dreher [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[18.Jul.08] :. Conservatives love to complain about Hollywood liberalism, but most of the political films that shuffle through the cineplexes are standard-issue leftie hackwork that neither persuade nor succeed....

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Robot Holocaust

by Bill Gibron

[30.Jun.08] :. In the second half of our Disney discussion, the way in which the dystopian world of WALL*E was sold to a susceptible public is dissected.

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Consumer Apocalypse: WALL-E

by Chris Barsanti

[29.Jun.08] :. As part of a double dose of Disney Monday, Chris Barsanti looks at the recent release from CG savants Pixar.

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‘WALL*E’ is Wonderful!

by Bill Gibron

[27.Jun.08] :. By its very definition, imagination is limitless. The only true restrictions to the notion exist in the connection to actual human thought. Clearly, whoever is hiring (or perhaps, cloning) the...

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WALL∙E

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jun.08] :. For much of WALL∙E, the titular robot speaks not a word, but instead whimpers or exclaims, his language an assortment of expressive erps and eeps.

 

‘WALL-E’ director Andrew Stanton recalls a legendary luncheon

by Dixie Reid [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[25.Jun.08] :. EMERYVILLE, Calif. - The lunch meeting grew into something of a legend over the years. It’s gotten “mythified,” says Andrew Stanton, who was there. And little wonder, since...

 

Finding Nemo (2003)

by Renée Scolaro Mora

[29.May.03] :. What I find more intriguing is the timeliness of Marlin's dilemma, raising his child in an ever more dangerous and unpredictable world.